Official Mission – President Public ServiceThird Round – Kurunegala District

(Divisional Secretariat – Ganewatta)

Arrangements have been made to conduct in Kurunegala district the third round of the mobile service program “Official Mission – President Public Service” which has been initiated on the order of his Excellency President Maithripala Sirisena and under the instruction of Hon. Prime Minister Ranil wickramasinghe and under the guidance of Hon. Minister of Home Affairs Wajira Abeywardana and this program is organized by the Presidential Secretariat and Ministry of Home affairs.

In this program, Identity cards will be issued to those who person who here not yet obtained identity cards and also issues related to issuing ID cards will also be sorted out.

Public service program for Ganewatta divisional secretariat division was conducted on 07th.04.2017 with the participation of Hon. Minister Wajira Abeywardana at Ganewatta S.B.Herath National School. The Commissioner General of Registration of Persons P.Viyani Gunathilaka together with several officers of his staff participated at this program. The aim of this program is to provide all persons in Kurunegala district with Identity Cards and thereby bring to zero the number of non Identity Cards holders.

Respectable number of people submitted applications to the Department for obtaining identity cards and the preparation of identity cards for such application submitted together with photographs conforming to prescribed specification are rapidly underway and preparation of identity cards for incomplete applications may get some delayed.

In this mobile service the rare opportunity of served Department such as Register General, Moto Traffic, Social Services and Pensions serving under one roof was a great solace for the people of the area. Under this third programme of official mission , this Department has made arrangements to conduct mobile services in all other divisional secretariat divisions in Kurunegala District in near future.